Definition for Straining:

• Nisus.

Synonyms for Straining:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • arduous,
  • strenuous.
  •impatient (adjective)
  • more unindulgent,
  • quick tempered,
  • racing one motor,
  • most chafing,
  • head-long,
  • racing motor,
  • head long,
  • hot tempered,
  • quicktempered,
  • racing ones motor,
  • most unindulgent,
  • un indulgent,
  • most straining,
  • on pins needles,
  • more chafing,
  • more straining,
  • most appetent,
  • un-indulgent,
  • in-tolerant,
  • more appetent,
  • in tolerant.
  •reaching (adjective)
  • re aching,
  • most lunging,
  • out-stretching,
  • more stretching,
  • more lunging,
  • most stretching,
  • out stretching,
  • most outstretching,
  • ex tending,
  • ex-tending,
  • re-aching,
  • more outstretching.

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • strain,
  • straining.
  •distortion (noun)
  • distortion.
  •effortful (noun)
  • effortful.
  •overrefinement (noun)
  • overrefinement.
  •push (noun)
  • exertings,
  • drivings,
  • forcings,
  • shovings,
  • strainings.
  •straining (noun)
  • torture,
  • twisting.
  •tension (noun)
  • stretchings,
  • astrictions,
  • tautnesses,
  • tensenesses,
  • tensities.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • misuse,
  • separation,
  • figure,
  • Achieving,
  • overstrain,
  • offering,
  • falsifying,
  • Essaying,
  • store,
  • effusion,
  • sounding,
  • Twining,
  • rendering,
  • refinement,
  • Adjudicating,
  • Burdening,
  • whirl,
  • variant,
  • attempt,
  • Classing,
  • percolation,
  • twine,
  • oozing,
  • colouring,
  • sampling,
  • bloat,
  • stressful,
  • lining,
  • judging,
  • design,
  • Handing,
  • stressfulness,
  • sifting,
  • stretch,
  • Disfiguring,
  • equivocation,
  • scrupling,
  • timid,
  • extraction,
  • emphasizing,
  • kind,
  • sublimation,
  • swelling,
  • passing,
  • Bothering,
  • struggling,
  • twist,
  • toilsome,
  • Accomplishing,
  • excretion,
  • misstatement,
  • toiling,
  • falsehood,
  • Exerting,
  • hard,
  • deformation,
  • Carolling,
  • Pegging,
  • galloping,
  • leaching,
  • tiresome,
  • go over,
  • ask,
  • afflict,
  • overstress,
  • hesitating,
  • tuning,
  • funding,
  • Crinkling,
  • Fatiguing,
  • lay,
  • punishing,
  • reduce,
  • elution,
  • Storing,
  • switch over,
  • coloring,
  • put in,
  • overworking,
  • Creasing,
  • Slaving,
  • tenor,
  • go beyond,
  • unfolding,
  • run,
  • destructive distillation,
  • inventorying,
  • tensing,
  • stress,
  • Spraining,
  • breaking point,
  • Tugging,
  • compress,
  • tighten,
  • faltering,
  • nisus,
  • utilise,
  • seep,
  • tiring,
  • secure,
  • melodic phrase,
  • exert,
  • pulling,
  • weep,
  • prevarication,
  • Wrinkling,
  • heave,
  • utilize,
  • misinterpretation,
  • Versing,
  • contouring,
  • shocking,
  • sort,
  • wearing,
  • grueling,
  • measuring,
  • overextension,
  • Accentuating,
  • melody,
  • diffident,
  • form,
  • Channelling,
  • exudation,
  • widening,
  • contrasting,
  • working,
  • Cabling,
  • employ,
  • Seaming,
  • shilly-shallying,
  • typing,
  • Overstraining,
  • pressuring,
  • figuring,
  • reducing,
  • Carrying,
  • Garbling,
  • Assaying,
  • emphasising,
  • nervous strain,
  • snapping point,
  • coursing,
  • killing,
  • Punctuating,
  • boding,
  • Bolting,
  • backbreaking,
  • Examining,
  • racing,
  • optical aberration,
  • unbending,
  • Stemming,
  • wrenching,
  • overexertion,
  • wearisome,
  • endeavor,
  • tug,
  • permeating,
  • Distorting,
  • ooze,
  • Prolonging,
  • striving,
  • tension,
  • pipelining,
  • Demurring,
  • overexpansion,
  • spiritualization,
  • aberration,
  • Noting,
  • grieve,
  • strained,
  • stocking,
  • sticking,
  • Channeling,
  • get tired,
  • Styling,
  • Elutriation,
  • voicing,
  • Cramping,
  • weeping,
  • pains,
  • grinding,
  • Providing,
  • filtration,
  • laborious,
  • weighting,
  • devote,
  • overtaxing,
  • sweating,
  • theming,
  • Protracting,
  • tune,
  • misdirection,
  • Jobbing,
  • covering,
  • curl,
  • branding,
  • sieving,
  • consume,
  • purification,
  • contacting,
  • drop in,
  • tightening,
  • Furrowing,
  • essay,
  • mental strain,
  • Gaining,
  • constrict,
  • distension,
  • dribbling,
  • winnowing,
  • Weariful,
  • sorting,
  • trying,
  • exaggeration,
  • hesitant,
  • torment,
  • seepage,
  • consecrate,
  • dedicate,
  • Phasing,
  • song,
  • apply,
  • var,
  • broadening,
  • refer,
  • Colature,
  • testing,
  • tentative,
  • screening,
  • Edulcoration,
  • Streaking,
  • stiffen,
  • hardworking,
  • torturing,
  • Patterning,
  • heavy,
  • drudging,
  • twirl,
  • contorting,
  • slogging,
  • cautious,
  • air,
  • variety,
  • corruption,
  • haul,
  • Deforming,
  • perversion,
  • Paining,
  • inflation,
  • framing,
  • plodding,
  • squeeze,
  • exhausting,
  • struggle,
  • fasten,
  • laboured,
  • gruelling,
  • expanding,
  • zip up,
  • squeezing,
  • rhyming,
  • line,
  • Bloating,
  • anguish,
  • labouring,
  • Forming,
  • stock,
  • exfiltration,
  • Filtering,
  • clarification,
  • Overdrawing,
  • wearying,
  • Attaining,
  • Riddling,
  • performing,
  • focusing,
  • stressing,
  • wear out,
  • essentialization,
  • bend,
  • Fleshing,
  • Forcing,
  • Percolating,
  • spin,
  • Grubbing,
  • transudation,
  • Tasking,
  • birthing,
  • rack,
  • slanting,
  • laboring,
  • accenting,
  • fashion,
  • calling,
  • perjury,
  • miscoloring,
  • changing,
  • Veining,
  • melodic line,
  • Jibbing,
  • breed,
  • Blooding,
  • draining,
  • overstretching,
  • constrain,
  • agony,
  • Attempting,
  • taxing,
  • misconstruction,
  • slip by,
  • extravasation,
  • Filtrating,
  • breezing,
  • Injuring,
  • misrepresentation,
  • Operose,
  • Extending,
  • airing,
  • Endeavoring,
  • Stickling,
  • troubling,
  • endeavouring,
  • call in,
  • Plugging,
  • go through,
  • confabulation,
  • Lixiviation,
  • grading,
  • distorted shape,
  • pull,
  • false swearing,
  • distillation.

Paraphrases for Straining:

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    draining, ruining, catching, stifling, shearing, harvesting, Distorting, challenges, waiting, suffocating, Curtailing, Encumbering, trapping, wasting, causing, lessening, exhausting, Capturing, sieving, narrowing, bending, Depleting, screening, yielding, spoiling, reducing, lowering.

Antonyms for Straining:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    effortless.

Straining Sentence Examples:

• He kissed her passionately again and again, while she fought to be free, straining at his arms with her small white hands and trying to turn her face from him.

• Then they waited in silence, straining their ears to catch the first warning of the scout's return.

Homophones for Straining:

• straying, steering, strong, scattering, sauternes, strewing, suturing, st. irenaeus, southernness, socket wrench, storminess, streaming, string cheese, stirring, sternness, strain gage, shoestring, shattering, strenuous, string, starring, strings, star anise, sweet orange, storm sash, stringy, shoe string, steatornis, shuddering, staring, strange, sturnus, strain gauge.

Hyponym for Straining:

• n.

  • act
    elbow grease, effort, exertion, sweat, travail.